Dump Camp
Worsley's Journal. October 27, 1915
"The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon, for shortly after we had camped on the floe, we could hear the crushing & smashing of her beams & timbers & subsequent examination of her showed that only 6 cabins aboard had not been pierced by the floes & blocks of ice."
Worsley's comment prompted me to take a closer look at this photo.
NOTE: Thanks to Shackleton's leadership, ten days after abandoning Endurance, the crew has made a remarkable adjustment to living on an ice-floe hundreds of miles from land. Orde-Lees' Journal - Novem
Orde-Lees' Journal - 5 November 1915 Very cold during the night. I was on watch from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. and caught an Adelie penguin. This is the first of his kind that we have seen since last January